I dunno, Wolfgang. The patch as shown on the Arch wiki did work as advertised, for me. After running the patch script, the VMware Player 3.1.1 "module builder" was able to rebuild for the 2.6.35 kernel with no errors or problems -- I have tested it with 2 VMs today and all is correct.

slh

Post subject:Posted: 15.09.2010, 13:58

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Given that VMware player is not packaged in Debian, this is no upgrade warning - moving to software.

VMware Player offers an upgrade to ver. 3.1.2. When accepted, the upgrade installs correctly, but the new version also will not build the kernel modules correctly -- error on vmmon.

The patch linked above, from Arch forums, does NOT work correctly on this upgraded version.

However, the two files on the first post here will patch it correctly.

Copy the two files to /tmp. Run the patch-modules.sh script, which will invoke the other script and run it. It ran without errors on my system. When it is finished, the new version of VMware Player will launch, and when the license is accepted, it runs with no further issues. Usual caveats are in effect -- YMMV. My system:

Hi Wolfgang. I have a Win XP VM, a Win 7 VM, and a Kubuntu 10.10 VM. The Windows VMs work good -- networking is "bridged" and USB all works fine. I don't use iTunes, so I cannot comment on that issue. I have several USB devices, including a Motorola Razr phone, and that Windows software and USB interface all works fine on the Win XP VM. I do not see why iTunes should have any problem on a VM.

wofritz

Post subject:Posted: 25.09.2010, 12:19

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Hi dibl,
I did it - updated iTunes to current version, and it seems to work. My first trials with iTunes (around May) were not successful, and google talked about problems with iTunes and VMWare, but this seems to be solved now.